On 2016-09-14 17:53, Jamie wrote:
Hi,
I am not sure if this is an intended consequence but when using the
webbrowser module to open a new blank browser tab in chrome it opens it
in a new browser window instead of using the current window. Providing
any complete url provides different behaviour, it opening a new tab in
the current browser window. Below is some code that produces the
different behaviours.
blank tab code:
import webbrowser
chrome = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe %s"
url = "chrome://newtab"
webbrowser.get(chrome).open_new_tab(url)
webbrowser.get(chrome).open_new_tab(url)
normal tab code:
import webbrowser
chrome = "C:/Program Files (x86)/Google/Chrome/Application/chrome.exe %s"
url = "http://google.com";
webbrowser.get(chrome).open_new_tab(url)
webbrowser.get(chrome).open_new_tab(url)
I would like to be able to open new blank tabs in the current browser
window if possible. If you know of a way to do this with the webbrowser
module I would appreciate your help. Also is there any chance that the
ability to close browser tabs will be added to the webbrowser module soon?
If you want a new blank tab, try giving it the URL "about:blank".
All the module does is call the browser application with the appropriate
command line arguments, so the module could close a tab only if the
browser itself let you do so by calling it with some argument, which
probably won't happen...
A workaround is to select the browser window and then send it a Ctrl+F4
keypress. Have a look at the 3rd party "pywin32" package.
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